Religion: Tracts, Bibles

"GOOD NEWS FOR YOU! GOD LOVES YOU!"

"MUSTARD-SEED FAITH." "INFIDELITY'S WORK, A True

Story."

"THE SWEARER'S PRAYER. . . .

Swearer, this is thy prayer. Oh, dreadful imprecation! Oh horrible, most horrible! . . . Oh, let thine oaths be turned into supplications! . . ."

Such pious words, on little leaflets and pamphlets, are the stock in trade of the American Tract Society, an interdenominational, evangelical body founded 109 years ago. Meeting last week in Manhattan, the Society announced that during the year past it distributed 5,889,103 pieces of Christian literature in 25 languages,...

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